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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Accommodation The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Accommodation While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Accommodation
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Accommodation "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Accommodation At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Accommodation
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Accommodation Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Accommodation
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Accommodation I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Accommodation Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Accommodation
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Accommodation The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Accommodation
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Accommodation "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Accommodation
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Accommodation It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Accommodation
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Accommodation "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Accommodation
